Avocado is an indispensable product around the world. It is also called the crocodile pear, because of its rough surface and characteristic green color.
Avocado is gaining wide popularity, it contains more than 20 types of vitamins, amino acids, fiber, useful fats and trace elements. The fruit is extremely healthy, providing irreplaceable benefits for the skin, body and health.
Moreover, almost every part of it provides benefits, making its use even more wide-ranging.
It is accepted that before eating an avocado, a thin layer of the skin should be peeled and the stone removed. Surprisingly or not, the avocado stone can also be used.
Using an avocado stone
In fact, 70% of the amino acids in the composition of the avocado are found precisely in the avocado stone. It provides a number of health benefits – regulates high cholesterol, protects against coronary artery disease, prevents cardiovascular disease, etc.
Due to its bitter taste, the stone is difficult to eat.
To use the avocado stone, you can remove its top brown skin. Then you can cut it and bake it on low heat.
When it acquires a golden color, you can leave it to cool and dry. Grind it in a coffee grinder and use it as a decoction, which you boil in hot water for about 10 minutes. The finished broth should be cooled and consumed throughout the day.
Other uses of avocado stone
- Additive to soups, avocado salads, pasta, rice, french fries, etc.;
- As a seasoning in main dishes with meat or in vegetable stews.
Also learn how to use avocado leaves, how to cut an avocado and which foods go with avocado.
